History and Future of IT

By archiedewhurst10

  • First computor invented

    Charles Babbage began developing the first automatic computing engine, But the funding withdrew and he never really complete the full scale that he planned

  • The first TV

    Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, a 23-year-old university student in Germany invented the first television system.

  • How doctors use ICT

    Doctors can't watch patients all day , so computerised monitors are used instead. Sensors are attached to the patient to read things such as their temperature. The information from the sensors can be seen on a computer. If there is a problem like the pulse being too high the computer will let them know. ICT is used in diagnosing illnesses with things such as MRI scans and x-rays. X-rays were first used on 18th march 1895 and were the first use of ICT in Medicen

  • First online streamed media

    George O. Squier made a system that transmitted signals over electrical lines

  • First programmable computer

    Konrad Zuse in his parents living room made the first electro-mechanical binary programmable (modern) computer and really the first working computer

  • The first digital computer

    Or otherwise known as the Atanasoff-Berry Computer, the ABC started being developed by Professor John Vincent Atanasoff and graduate student Cliff Berry.

  • The first electric programmable computer

    The first electric programmable computor was called Colossus and was the first electric programmable computer and was invented by Tommy Flowers.

  • first games console

    it was made by Thomas T. Goldsmith Jr. and Estle Ray Mann. it consisted of an analog buttons to control a dot on the screen to simulate a missile being fired at targets, which were drawings on the computor screen

  • First commercial computer

    In 1942, Konrad Zuse begin working on the Z4, which later became the first commercial computer after being sold to Eduard Stiefel.

  • The famous Tennis for two invented

    an electronic game made by William Higinbotham

  • Mastercard invented

    New York's Marine Midland Bank, now HSBC Bank created "Master Charge: The Interbank Card". The card was given a boost in 1969, when First National City Bank joined, merging its proprietary Everything Card with Master Charge.

  • Internet Invented

    UCLA puts out a press release introducing the public to the Internet

  • The first laptop or portable computer

    The IBM 5100 is the first portable computer. The computer weighed 55 pounds and had a five inch screen.

  • The first personal computer

    Ed Roberts introduced the Altair 8800 which was the first personal computor

  • The first Apple computer

    Steve Wozniak designed the first Apple known as the Apple I computer

  • Apple Founded

    It was founded by Steve Jobs in Ohio

  • First online shopper

    The world's first online home shopper was Mrs Jane Snowball,72, in May 1984 in Gateshead England when she bought groceries from Tesco supermarket for home delivery.

  • First FIFA game

    It was called FIFA International Soccer and was developed in 1992 in Florida

  • First social networking site

    It was called SixDegrees.com and was made by Mark Bullington it was way ahead of its time it allowed online chats and listing your friends.

  • Lovefilm founded

    Paul Garderner founded lovefilm in America

  • Facebook Founded

    It was founded by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates The website's membership was limited by the founders to uni students, but then it spread to other colleges in the Boston area, gradually most universities in Canada and the United States corporations had accounts and by September 2006, to everyone of age 13 and older with a valid email address.

  • Google maps invented

    Google Maps is a web mapping service technology provided by Google, that powers many map-based services,

  • Twitter Founded

    Twitter was created by Jack Dorsey and by July, the social networking site was launched. The service gained worldwide popularity, with over 500 million registered users by 2012, generating over 340 million tweets daily and handling over 1.6 billion search queries per day.Since its launch, Twitter has become one of the ten most visited websites on the Internet,

  • snapchat founded

    Snapchat is a photo messaging application developed by for Stanford students. Using the app, people can take photos, record videos, add text and drawings, and send them to a friend. Users set a time limit for how long people can view their photos, up to 10 seconds, after which it will be deleted.

  • Virgin Galatic the first Voyage for torists to go to space

    Sir richard brandson plans to send 50 passengers on a voyage to space that will cost 1 million per person for 2 weeks.

  • a phone that folds

    European scientists have started to develop a shape shifting phone.

  • oil reservers run out and computors help us build cars that run on water

    Oil is predicted to run out in 50 years and when it does we will be using water and renewable energy sorces to power everything.

  • Technoligy helps us destroy threatnaning metor stikes

    Laser rays could save us by cutting metor into two small bits before they hit us. The reserch has begun and it is exspected to be finished on 2080